The F.D.A. is requiring Purdue Pharma to conduct clinical trials before it can claim that the new version is less abuse-prone.
Last weekend, the State Labor Department began a pilot partnership with six nonprofit workers' organizations, whose members will be the government's eyes and ears in the abuse-prone immigrant workplace.
Its Summer Work Travel program for foreign university students was created decades ago to promote goodwill, education and cultural exchange but has since turned into a huge, poorly regulated and abuse-prone foreign guest-worker scheme.
"I say, 'Throw it out,' because it becomes a very biased, error-prone and abuse-prone system," said Dr. Namie, the author of "The Bully at Work" (Sourcebooks, 2000).
Determining who to quarantine is either expensive (if it's done correctly) or arbitrary, authoritative and abuse-prone (if it's done badly).
A second would make it harder to obtain addictive or abuse-prone medications such as Oxycontin.
The proposition's second major provision would require doctors and pharmacists to check CURES, a state database of prescriptions that have been filled, before prescribing or dispensing abuse-prone drugs to a patient for the first time.
She has allowed the public to prod, probe and abuse her prone body.
The catch is that any technology powerful enough to improve life radically is also capable of abuse and prone to serious, unanticipated side effects.
Expert witnesses testified at his appeal that he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the abuse, leaving him prone to wild mood swings that could have been a factor behind the murders he committed.
Mr. Carico said of complaints that DNA testing could be abused as a dragnet, "Any tool is prone to abuse, and if that happens we'll deal with it on a case-by-case basis".
